Marvering mechanism for glass-forming apparatus



Feb, 24. 1925.

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A. KADOW MARVERING MECHANISM FOR GLASS FORMING APPARATUS 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Original. Filed July ll, 1910 Patented Feb. 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES ttasss PATENT OFFICE,

eveusr KADQW, or ToLnuu,

MARVERING MEGHA'NISM FOR GLASS-FORMING orig nal application filed m 11,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST KAnow, a (jltlzekj of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Mechanism for Improvements in Marvering of which the ;and marver, the figures showing lpositious of the same parts;

The invention has for its object to provide certain new and improved mechanisms and combinations'of mechanisms forl automatically performing the operation of marvering.

The invention has for further objects, cerlain other new and improved constructions and devices in glass forming apparatus which will be hereinafter des ibed and claimed.

The invention is illustrated, in a preferred embodiment, in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Fig. 1 isa plan view of a portion of a glass forming machine illustrating the mechanisms and arrangements of mechanisms concerned in this application;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view, on an enlarged scale, of the controlling cam;

Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view taken through the, oscillating and rotary gathering mechanism;

Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical sectional views taken longitudinally of the gathering mechanism, and showing the marver and controlling mechanisms for the gathering device dillerent Fig. 6 is a sectional view, on'airenlarged scale, taken on line 6-6 of"E ig. 1, il toking in the direction of the arrows, andl Fig. 7 is a sectional plan taken on line 77 of Fig.6.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts inthe several figures'of the drawings. The machine, of which only those portions are shown which are necessary 1' r the understanding of the invention van to automatically 10 operated glass forming apparatus,

7 machine might omo, essleivon TO THE wiaszrmxn neonznvn com- :em, or TOLEDO, OHIO, A CORPORATION or emo.

APPARATUS.

1910, Serial No. 571,442. Divided and this application filed November 25, 1910. Serial No. 594,049.

cerned, consists of a stationary column provided with certain cams and other operat-- 1 4 mg and controlling mechanisms, arounu which column 1s moved circularly the device 1 which gathers and supports the body of glass operated upon, the operations performed upon the glass, among them the marvering operation with which this ap' plication is concerned, being efiected while the glass is thus moved around the column and by means of the cams, racks, and other mechanisms above mentioned. \Vhile a single gathering device and marvering apparatus has been shown and described, it will be readily understood that a. complete be constructed so as to consist of a number of these setsof mechanisms, all of which could beoperated simultaneously from the same stationary devices on the column. v i 1 .Rcferring to the drawings, 10 designates the column which. supports an upper ring 11 and a lower ring 13. To the upper faceof ring 11 is bolted a cam plate; 12, the plate being preferably slotted, as indicated at 12, for the purpose of adjustment. On the cam-plate 12 is formed a cam way 14: adapted to receive a cam roller 15.

To'the under side ring 11 is bolted an an nular plate 16 to which is secured a rack 17 adapted to be meshed by a-pinion 18. The gathering device, in its preferred term, is constructed as follows: A cylindrical casing 19 is provided formed with the which is keyed a beveled friction disc 23.

Shafts 21 and 21 are revolubly supported in bearings 24, 24: respectively, formed on the frame members 25, 25, secured to the uprights 2G, 26, by brackets 27, 27 The uprights 26, 26 are mounted on a rotating platform, aportlon of which 1s shown at 28 in Fig. 2. ltotary movement is 1m arted to the platform 28 by any suitable. 0rm

of driving means. The frame members 25,

25 are connected by a transverse member spindle 30,'0ne threaded to re- 1 29. ,Withimcasing 19 is a end et which, 81', is screw cairn a. nut 82 which, holds e19} of balls I 33 against their runway 34-. Spindle 30 is formed further down with an enlargement 35 formed with a beveled shoulder 36, be tween which and a runway 37 are interposed a set of balls 38 Thev runway 37 is seated 'in a recess in the end of the casing 19 and the ball bearing thus constit' fl d is ,closed by ca piece 39., The other end of the casing is o' osed by cap; piece 40. The spindle 30 is formed with a bore 41 having a bra ch 42 opening into the space between ,the spindle and the inner surface of casing 19. Shaft 21 is formed with a bore 43 registering with a bore 44 in a cap piece 45 bolted to the and of loosing 24. A pipe 46 communicating with a. source of supply of. compressed air (not shown.) is tapped into the cap piece 45. The bore in the spindle is enlarged at 47 and this enlargement contains the spiral sprii'ig 48 and a rubber gasket 49, against the latter of which bcai s the end of the gatlz. 'n member or blow pipe 50. On the gathering member a collar 51 and the spindle is formed with two perforations 52 which receive the balls 53 engaging with slight indentations in the gathering member 50. A sleeve 55, normally pressed against a collar 56 on the end of the spindle 30 by a spiral spring 57, covers the perforation. 52 in which balls 53 are located. The halls therefore clutch the gathering member {)0 to spindle 30. When sleeve is pusbedibacl: against the spring, balls will fall. out, allowing the gather- Eng member 5:) to be removal from the spindle. Spring 57 against a friction cone feath red ta gaged by the friction d J I have shown a pi 1d menstruation of gathering mechan r, it will be understood that the construfiion of the gathen ing mechanism pe se ierxns nopart oi my present invention, but specifically claimed in my copending application. 571,442, filed July 11, 1910, of which this pr sent application is a division.

The up ara-tus for marvering the blank or body 0 glass collected on the end of the gathering member 50, consists, s shown, of the following mechanisms: Mounted on a pivot 59 on the frame member 25 is a plate t e spindle and enis: 23.

-60, the upper portion of which is in the form of a wed shaped trough 61. At

.tached to the plate 60 is a link 62 extending to a bell cranlr. 63 mounted on a bracket 64, secured to frame member 29, the other arm of said bell. crank being connected by a link 65 to a lever 66 pivoted to a bracket 67 secured to the frame member 29 and car-- rying a cam follower preferably a roller 68 adapted to come into contact, at the proper point in the travel of the glass forming mechanism around the stationary column 10, witha cam 69 bolted to' the lower ri? 13 on the column b), Preferably a: initial adjustment of the lever 66. The engagement 01"" roller 58 with cam 69 tilts the screw 68 is employed to give the proper In the operation of the machine in connection with which my present invention is illustrated, the gathering device is first dipped into a. glass pot and after a body of glass has been collected on the end of the gathering device, the latter is oscillated in a vertical plane so as to bring the body of glass into contact with the marver. While thcglass is in the marver it is rotated, first, with the marver in the horizontal portion. shown in Fig. 4, and subsequently, with the marver tilted to the position shown in Fig. 5. The mechanisms for oscillating the gathering device and for causing the gathering member 50 to be r0- tated will now be described.

The lame members 25, 25 are formed with horizontal flanges 72, 72" respectively, which project inwardly beyond the transverse frame member 29, and are formed with ways 73 adapted to receive a slide 74, to the under side of which is pivoted the cam roller 15 which has been described as operatiiig in cam way 14. On the upper side of slide 74 is pivotally mounted a pinion 75 which meshes on one side with. a rack 76 formed on a r l 77, and on the other side with a rack 78 to ed on a, strip 79 bolted to the flange 72, this strip, and a strip 79 on the other side, being arranged so as to overlap the slide ll ith the movement of pinion '15 in can't way 14 to or from column. 1.0, a corresponding but multiplied movement is given to rod 77, This rod, on its outer and, extends under a guide 7 7 and carries a rack 80 which meshes with. the spur gear 22 described as keyed to the shaft 21.

The rotation of gathering member 50 is .ac-

complisl'lcd by the following mechanisms: Pinion l8 has been described as meshing with rack 17. This pinion is carried on a shaft 81 mounted in bracket 82 on the frame member Shaft 81 carries a bevel gear meshing with a bevel gear 84" on a short shaft 85 mounted in a bearing 86 on a bracket 87 bolted to the frame member 25. Shaft 85 is connected by a universal joint 88 to a rod 89' which extends through a bearin 90 on frame member 25 and carries a bevel gear 91 which meshes with a bevel near 92 formed on the friction disc 28 which has been described as engaging with the friction pulley 58 on the spindle 30 of the gathering device. For the purpose of a certain other operation, not here concerned, which requires thedisengagcment of bevel gear 83 from bevel gear 84, shaft 81 is shown slidably mounted in the bracket 82, the bevel gears 83 and 84 being normally held in engagement by a spiral spring 81 which beats against the under side of gear 83. I The operation of the machine, -so far as the particular mechanisms here shown and described are concerned, is as follows:

Supposin J' the gathering member 50 to have been ip'ped into a glass pot, eitherautomatically or otherwise, the gathering member is oscillated so as to bring the blank of glass into contact with the marver 61,

, short time, the blank taking the form shown as shown in Fig. .4. During the time the blank isin the marver, and before that time, if desirable, it is'rotated by means of the engagementnf pinion 18 with rack 17 and I the mechanisms above described which are put in operation by the movement of pinion 18 around the rack. After the blank has been this rotated in the marver, while the latter is in its horizontal position, for a at A, Fig. 4, the marver is tiltedby the I engagemei'itof the roller 68 with cam 69 on ,zontal position.

the lower ring 13. The rotation of the blank still continues and the tilting of the marver therefore gives the blank the conical form indicated at A in Fig. 5.

The gathering. device is then oscillated so as to remove the blank from the marver and bring it into position for the next operation to be performed upon it. This next operation forms no part of my present inventionand therefore will not be described. Roller (58 by this time has moved past cam 69, and

spring 70 returns the marver to its hori- Referring to Fig. 2, it will be seen that ,these operations take place while the cam 'roller 15 is moving from the pointa on the cam track to the point 0. While the cam roller is movlng from a to b the gathering device is being raised for example, from the glass pot) to a horizontal position. While it is moving from Z) to c the gathering device is being turned 180 to bring the blank into contact with the marver. c to (I there is no radial movement of the cam roller. During this period the blank remains in the marver. When the roller reaches (1 it begins to swing back and con- From character shown in my co-pending application SerialNo. 571,442, in which all of the operations on the blank are performed auto-- matically, it will be realized that it will be quite possible to utilize the devices, herein shown, in a machine of somewhat difi'erent character, for example, in a machine in which some of the operations are performed by hand or by movement and mechanisms different from those herein shown.

I claim: a

1. In apparatus of the character described, the combination with movable supporting means, of a tilting marver thereon, a stationary cam, a lever on said supporting means, a cam follower on said lever which comes into contact with said stationary cam' and a link mechanism connecting said lever with said marver, and a spring adapted to return the marver to its normal position.

2. In a machine for producing glass articles, the combination with a blow-pipe, of

marverer, means for producing a marvering act1on between the gather and the marverer,

and means for automatically causing the marverer to approach and recede from the gather during the marvering in a predeter mined manner.

8. In a machine for producing glass articles, the combination with a blow pipe, of means for rotatin the blow pipe, a marverer', and means or automatically causing the marvel-er to approach and recede from the gather during the marvering .in a predetermined manner.

' AUGUST KADOW. lVitncssesz' vR. A. BOTHWELL,

G. L. REDRUP. 

